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Roger Ailes Biography: 9 Greatest Quotes From First Excerpt

“The Loudest Voice in the Room,” Gabriel Sherman’s hotly anticipated unauthorized biography of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, won’t hit shelves until Jan. 21, but the author has given readers a taste with an excerpt posted online late Wednesday on his home publication, New York Magazine.

Sherman did not have direct access to Ailes and Fox News has denied the allegations in the book, and said that its contents were not fact-checked with the network. However, he conducted over 614 interviews with other individuals in connection to Ailes for the biography.

TheWrap pulled 9 of the top quotes from Sherman’s interviews for the explosive new book:

On the “War On Christmas”:
“There’s no Christ child on the lawn at Christmastime! … They have all this fucking Kwanzaa stuff, they have this Hanukkah shit, and you can’t even get Jesus! They think it’s illegal. You can’t show any flags. So I’m not sending our kid there.”

On Fashion:
“Tell him not to wear a hoodie. It’s creepy.”

On keeping things in perspective:
“I have 2,000 employees at Fox, yet this small newspaper is the cause of all my headaches … I’m sick of the drama in this office.”